Bere Ferrers

{{Short description|Village in Devon, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

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| static_image_width = 240

| static_image_caption = Bere Ferrers leading down to the River Tavy

| coordinates = {{coord|50.451|-4.177|display=inline,title}}

| country = England

| official_name = Bere Ferrers

| population = 2,989

| population_ref = (2011)

| civil_parish = Bere Ferrers

| shire_district = West Devon

| shire_county = Devon

| region = South West England

| os_grid_reference = SX4563

| dial_code = 01822

| post_town = YELVERTON

| postcode_district = PL20

| postcode_area = PL

| constituency_westminster = Torridge and Tavistock

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Bere Ferrers, sometimes called Beerferris, is a village and civil parish on the Bere peninsula in West Devon in the English county of Devon. It is located to the north of Plymouth, on the west bank of the River Tavy. It has a railway station on the Tamar Valley Line.

The civil parish includes the whole of the Bere peninsula, including the village of Bere Alston and the smaller settlements of Tuckermarsh, Rumleigh, Buttspill, Braunder, Cotts, Hewton, Weir Quay, Clamoak, Gnatham and Collytown. In 2001 the parish had a population of 3,066;[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790366 Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : West Devon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194631/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790366 |date=2016-03-03 }} Retrieved 29 January 2010 this had decreased to 2,989 in 2011.{{cite web|url=http://localstats.qpzm.co.uk/stats/england/south-west/west-devon/bere-ferrers|title=Parish population 2011|access-date= 16 February 2015}}

Parish church

{{main|St Andrew's Church, Bere Ferrers}}

Sources

  • Rogers, W.H. Hamilton, The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West, Exeter, 1890, pp. 1–36, Willoughby de Broke

See also

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